from left: Wallace Haumaha (Te Arawa Lakes Trust chair), Traci Houpapa (Te Arawa Group Holdings chair), Clarke Pirika (Te Pūmautanga o Te Arawa chair). Te Arawa Group Holdings and Te Arawa Lakes ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

Fish often avoid intense stimuli, but scientists and animal welfare groups have long debated whether fish can feel pain. So is there an answer? Animal rights organization PETA claims on its ...

Argentina has launched a research cruise on Patagonian tooth fish (Dissostichus eleginoides ... The fishing factory vessel San Arawa II left Ushuaia with a team of scientists from INIDEP, the ...

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Every year, hundreds of kaihoe (paddlers) from across New Zealand travel to a camp site in Waitangi known as “Tent City” to ...

Gabel said this year's fleet featured many new waka, a lot of smaller waka and many built by the late Sir Hekenukumai Busby. He said crews came from every corner of the motu, including Tauranga, ...

Out on the moana, Tanya Rogers stands as the kaihautū (captain) of Tī Eke Waka o Te Arawa, one of the few waka exclusively paddled by wāhine. Representing Ngāti Whakaue and Taranaki, she said the ...